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The Pluses and Minuses of Having Oil-Fired Central Fired Boiler
With the UK still in the throes of the toughest winter it has experienced in many a long year, with energy bills to match, most families are taking a long hard look at their energy bills and asking themselves what went wrong...
UK Boiler Replacement Scheme Proving to be a bit of a "Gas."
Just a few weeks after it was announced, the UK government's boiler scrappage scheme continues to create loads of interest. Till now more than fifty five thousand of the maximum 125,000 grant vouchers have already been claimed...
Which British Gas Best Suits the UK Public's Needs
With British Gas reporting record profits for 2009 much of which is to be re-invested in making UK homes easier and cheaper to keep warm, it's easy to understand why one out of two households choose this time honoured British company to be their principal energy supplier...
How Not to Win the Highest Electric Bill Prize
One of the biggest competitions, and especially after emerging from a long and especially cold winter is, how high was your electricity bill?...
Seek out the best and not always the least expensive UK Gas and Electricity Suppliers
In the UK, there is a lot of competition in the energy supply business, and as anyone will tell you, competition is a very positive thing, especially when price is a principal factor...
What To Look Out For When You Research Your Gas Boiler Cover Policy
A gas fired boiler plays a very important part of an average UK family home. There are many people who fail to realise the importance of maintaining their boiler in the best condition, but soon do when it start to give them problems...
Budget and Plan Wisely Before Installing a New Central Heating System
Figuring out how much to spend on a central heating system for your home is like asking how long is a piece of string...
Don't Be a Slave to Opec - Say Goodbye to your Oil Fueled Boiler
It may be hard to believe but it was only ten years ago that oil was regarded as a reasonable alternative to gas and even electricity as a fuel to heat boilers in the UK home...
The Importance of Price Comparison Web Sites in Cutting Back on Energy Costs
Its very logical to compare energy prices, and you can do so by taking advantage of the websites that you will find online who offer price comparison services...
British Gas Launches Websaver 6: the UK's Cheapest Energy Tariff
With the launch of their WebSaver 6, British Gas have now earned the title as being the most competitive energy supplier in the UK with an average online tariff offer coming in at less than £900 a year, beating Npower's online tariff into second place...
Is Taking out Domestic Appliance Insurance Worth the Investment?
It's always a pleasurable experience to buy a new home appliance, especially one that will make your life easier...
Weighing up the Pluses and Minuses of Installing an Electric Water Heater
The choice of installing a water heater is one that should not be cast aside without weighing up the pros and cons of the situation...
British Gas cuts Standard Prices by an average 7%
British Gas, the largest residential energy supplier in Britain, has today cut its standard gas
prices by an average 7%...
Taking Care of Exterior Wiring Systems is Also Part of a Homeowner’s Task
Even though the UK summers aren't quite what they used to be, the days don't get any shorter. And anyone who has ever spent a long and pleasant summer evening outside in their garden will tell you that it can be a very soothing experience...
How to Make your Central Heating System Operate More Effectively
If you find that you constantly need to clean your electric kettle of limescale, the chances are that you live in a part of the UK where the water is "hard". Living with hard water is a problematic issue for home owners, which manifests itself in many ways...
British Gas Turns Up The Heat And By Quite A Bit More
If there is one rule of life that anyone should have learned by now is how to appreciate a gift when it is presented to you. And when you are presented with three gifts rolled into one then the levels of appreciation levels should go up accordingly...
British Gas Leaves the Field Behind with their Super Generous Offer Boiler Replacement Top up Offer
When the £400 boiler replacement scheme was first hinted at during Chancellor Alasdair Darling's pre-budget speech before Christmas, many UK families realised that at long last there was a possibility that they would be able to replace their old, noisy and highly inefficient boiler...
British Gas Makes a Compelling New Offer to UK Households
Two popular UK myths were exploded this week, one in close succession to the other. The first was that the weather it can get colder and the other was that British Gas could improve their already generous offer to match the government's new £400 boiler scrappage allowance announced last week...
How to Claim your UK Government Subsidy and Replace your Old Gas Boiler
There must have been at least 130,000 families in the UK yesterday asking them the same question. Couldn't Brown and Darling have arranged their £400 replacement budget subsidies about six months ago, and maybe we could have replaced our boilers before the winter...
Boiler Scrappage Scheme Gets Under Way With A Lot Of Help From British Gas
With considerable fanfare and no little self praise and back slapping, the UK Government has now launched their new £400 grant to help the public to those replace their old and increasingly inefficient boilers with new and considerably more efficient carbon friendly models...
British Gas's Offer Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time
Alasdair Darling hinted that it was going to happen in pre-budget speech of last month, and when Prime Minister Gordon Brown, officially launched the UK boiler scheme in the company of Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, they may well have pulled of the public relations coup of the century...
Cut Back on your Electricity Bill with a Whole-House Power Meter
According to how it works for you, each month or even two your electricity bill drops through your mail box or arrives by e-mail. No matter how it arrives, we all recall that moment of anticipation and fear as we scan quickly to the most important factor of all- the bottom line...
Man, it's a Gas - Heater, I Mean
If you live in a populated central location, you can enjoy a wide choice of water heating choices, with gas, electricity, wood and kerosene being the four major options...
Weighing up the Pros and Cons of Taking out a Boiler Maintenance Service Contract
As has occurred in cases of excess fees for car insurance, many UK householders have formed the possibly mistaken opinion that it may be cheaper in the long run to just pay for the repairs if their home boiler suddenly goes on the blink...
If You Haven't Discovered it Already, Winter is Here
Winter is here and with a vengeance this year. These are the times when we need to extract the maximum from our central heating systems and hot water boilers. It doesn't mean, however, that we need to commit financial hari-kari in the process...
Save Money on your Gas and Electricity Bills by Reading the Fine Print
We live in the internet age and those who choose to avoid this glaring fact do so at their peril. Cutting household bills should be everyone's priority these days and there is no doubt that by paying your gas and electricity bills through the internet save money and a fair chunk at that...
British Gas Show How Much They Care - With HomeCare
British Gas constantly justifies its position as the UK's premier gas supply company by taking care of their customers. They do so by providing top quality service all year long, and have once again proved their reliability during the difficult weather conditions being experienced just now in the UK, and especially in the south of England...
Don't Pay Through your Nose for your Gas and Electricity - Use your Brain Instead
In the cash-strapped UK of the last couple of years, many families await the arrival of their electricity and gas bills with a lot of fear and trepidation. How much will it be this time, they ask themselves. It is as if they have no control of their own fate, or their household bills.
Drain your Central Heating System before Winter Sets in
Winter is drawing rapidly to a close and we all want to experience that warm and reassuring glow when we come in out of the rain and the snow, to a warm house. Central heating systems are a wonderful thing to have in the UK's increasingly colder and longer winters, yet they are not something that can be taken for granted...
Boiler Removal is not a Subject to be Taken Lightly!
With the news that more than 100,000 UK homes are eligible to receive a handsome subsidy to replace their new boilers, the subject of how to remove an existing boiler must have been a hot topic across the dinner tables and bars of the UK at the weekend...
Darling Invites the UK Public to Get Rid of their Old Boilers
In one of the more popular moves in his pre-budget report maneuvers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alasdair Darling has handed a potential £400 bonus to up to UK 125,000 households. They will receive the bonus in order get to upgrade their old and dilapidated 'band G' gas heating boilers...
Learn to Love your Water Heater
One of the major expenses in running a UK home is heating water, with experts stating that around 20% of all utility bill expenses go in that direction...
Getting a Programmable Thermostat is a Great Way to Save Money Fast
Thermostats have been around for a long time, but the programmable version is fairly new on the scene. And what an asset it has turned out to be in the battle to reduce energy costs...
Buy a New Washing Machine and Save Money
With the UK public having to become much more energy conscious, it has been discovered that over the long term, front loading machines will be much friendlier to the bank balance, as well as to the environment...
Look to the Details to Keep your Gas and Electricity Bills Under Control
Very few UK families actually take the trouble to find out but if they did, they might be shocked to discover that they spend around £1400 a year on their gas and electricity bills...
Keep yourself and your family safe by ensuring that your gas appliances are
properly installed
Each winter in the UK between ten and fifteen people lose their lives by inhaling carbon monoxide fumes. These highly poisonous fumes leak into their homes through gas appliances and flues, and without exception, particularly those which have not been properly installed. The number of people, usually the elderly and infirm who become ill due to breathing these fumes, cannot be measured, but are estimated to run into the thousands...
Doing an electricity tariff comparison can save you a lot of money
In these troubled times every penny counts and there is no shame involved in getting down to details to cut back on costs. By taking care of the fine points and comparing the cost of your electricity bills amongst potential suppliers, a typical family stands to save themselves a few hundred pounds a year, money that can be well spent somewhere else...
How, When and Why to Change Your Gas Supplier
If the truth be told, most prefer the status quo. There is a well-known and pretty dangerous statement that’s says "better the devil we know than the devil we don't know". The danger in taking that kind of advice is that we will never change anything in our lives because we might be frightened to try...
How and When to Replace your Gas Boiler
Very few people can afford the luxury of changing their gas boiler as part of a fashion statement. The truth is that if the average consumer had the choice he would stay with the sane gas boiler forever...
A Condensing Combi Boiler - What Is It and What Can it do for you?
As new innovations come to light in all walks of life, we often have to familiarise ourselves with the new phraseology that comes with them. Only a few of us will have heard of combi boilers and particularly that of the condensing variety...
Take the Long Term View and Switch to Gas Central Heating
If you are heating your home by any other method than by good old British Gas, then more than likely you will have discovered by now that all the alternatives are no longer feasible. The price of heating oil has more or less quadrupled over the last few years, and electricity is not that far behind, largely because most power stations are operated by oil...
Why it Pays to Take Out Gas Boiler Insurance
There are things that it is common knowledge which we have to insure in the home. First of all, it is property that can be stolen, beginning with jewelry, cash, and personal papers, and all the way down to the matching Persian rugs and cat...
As the Nights Begin to Get Colder it's Time to Think Gas
Winter can be everyone's favourite season, but for most, it’s when they are in the inside looking out. That means being in a warm and cosy home with the central heating doing its job, and the gas boiler keeping the water hot for those baths and showers that the kids need when they come home after hours playing in the mud or even the snow...
Consumers Demand Informed Choices, British Gas Delivers
There was once a time when consumers placed unquestioning trust in product and service providers...
Gas Safe Register – Why?
There is one over-riding reason why the gas safe register exits and that is to protect people in their homes and work from one of the deadliest gases around: carbon monoxide (CO).
Cowboy Gas Fitters
If you are tempted into evil, by a good price, and the chap bearing gifts is not legally allowed to carry out the work, then you are literally risking not only your life
Gas Safety On Holiday, Home and Abroad
This is not to be taken lightly. Gas safety on holiday, either in the UK, or abroad, should not be dismissed without some thought as to what could happen.
Gas Safety Top Tips
Over 20 million households do and the team behind the Gas Safe Register recommend that everyone be aware of how to use gas safely in their home.
What Is Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
For those who ask what is carbon monoxide poisoning, they should know that the effects of one of the deadliest gases around can be at worse fatal, and at best, lead to serious health problems.
Do I Need a New Heating System?
When it comes to asking yourself, do I need a new heating system, it comes down to whether your current system is the most efficient you can have...
Do I Need a New Boiler?
When it comes to asking yourself, do I need a new heating system, it comes down to whether your current system is the most efficient you can have...
Installation Survey
Installing a new boiler, or central heating system, is not always as straightforward as it sounds. Often properties have 'features' that require special attention, or it might mean that a boiler needs some special attention from the installation engineers...
How to Find a Tradesman
It’s one of the questions, how to find a tradesman, which usually crop up when there’s a problem and sometimes, as when a pipe bursts, it can be an urgent problem which sends everyone into a panic...
DIY Safety Tips
If you fancy doing a few jobs yourself, then remember to think about DIY safety tips. And if you feel that a job is too tricky for you, don’t feel bad, play it on the safe side and get in a professional. Only attempt the jobs you feel comfortable with...
How to Fix Central Heating Problems
When we talk about how to fix central heating problems, what we mean are mainly radiators and pipes. You cannot work on your gas boiler, or indeed, any gas device. Only a recognised engineer can do this...
Quick Fix for Burst Pipe
A burst pipe is usually met with screaming and hysteria, and that’s just from the men in the house...
Dealing With An Air-Locked Pipe
Dealing with an air-locked pipe is a great DIY technique to learn, as it could stop you having to ring a plumber and paying a hefty bill...
Plumbing Tools The Top 10
When it comes to nominating plumbing tools, the top 10, then up there amongst the stars has to be the sink auger...
Remove Mold Add a Fan
If you want to remove mold, add a fan, it’s that simple...
Keep Your Gas Fire Safe
Keep your gas fire safe at all times is a good rule to remember...
How to Choose a Gas Fire
When the question how to choose a gas fire crops up, there’s a few things to remember...
How to Fit Loft Insulation
If you want to know how to fit loft insulation in a way that helps you save the maximum amount of money, then look no further than here...
Gas Boiler Maintenance
It’s amazing how a little bit of gas boiler maintenance can help your system stay in tip top condition...
How to temporarily remove a radiator for decorating
Right, the question how to temporarily remove a radiator for decorating is vexing for all those who know that it’s best to paint in all those difficult spots, no matter how tricky, to do a good job...
Capita Gas Safe Register Replaces CORGI
As of 1 April 2009, Capita Group Plc will run the new gas installer registration scheme, under the name Gas Safe Register. Here is what you need to know...
Energy bill cuts on the way. A case of too little too late
Most of the financially pressed UK public will not be falling to their knees in gratitude at the news that British Gas, Scottish and Southern Energy, and Eon have finally cut at least some of their prices which rumour has it was only agreed to after considerable political pressure...
Direct Debit - What to be Aware Of
Consumer groups are urging people who pay their fuel bills by direct debit to watch out, because it is claimed that millions of pounds are being exploited to earn the energy companies a fortune in interest...
Decoding Fuel Bills
Modern day utility bills seem so complicated, that you might regret not taking that quantum physics degree at Oxford...
Should you Switch Energy Suppliers?
The consensus of advice at the time of writing is hang on for a bit; don’t make the switch yet...
What does 1 tonne + 750 kg of Carbon saved each year mean?
By improving the energy efficiency of your home with the installation of home insulation, you can help the environment by reducing your home’s carbon emissions...
Insulation Expert: What is an R-Value?
Insulations come in a variety of materials and are sourced from a variety of manufacturers. In order to provide consumers with a consistent guide to compare insulations, a standardized rating system was developed...
How does Insulation Save you Money?
Insulation works to help homeowners maintain the warmth of their home and reduce energy costs by slowing the movement of heat from a hot space to one that is cooler...
Keeping Warm on Budget
With the snow falling and the country whipped by icy winds, it can pay dividends if you have a think about how to keep yourself warm...
Boiler Insurance
Considering the cost of replacing a boiler, or major parts of your central heating system from scratch, it’s no wonder that insurance plans to cover your boiler, and other parts of your system, have become so popular...
The Best Boiler of 2008
And the winner is, Kate Boiler Winslet. And up she comes to accept the award, tears streaming and words askew, forgetting which manufacturer to thank and which energy supplier to mention...
Who are HHIC?
The initials HHIC stand for The Heating and Hot Water Industry Council and its an organisation, based in Warwickshire, that consists of members drawn from the industry, including manufacturers, merchants, utility companies, distributors, installers and service providers...
British Gas Help the Aged Partnership
Let’s be honest, there are few things more miserable than being cold in your own property. It’s very difficult to lead a full and fulfilling life when the heating is off and the radiators are stone cold.
Ofgen
Basically, it fights the consumer’s corner when it comes to choice and value with their supply of electricity and gas. In other words, they are there to stop you being ripped off by the big energy companies.
Seasonal Efficiency of Domestic Boilers (who are SEDBUK)?
Seasonal Efficiency of Domestic Boilers - A poorly operating central heating boiler is no good for your wallet, or the environment, as it’s efficiency can be reduced by 30%.
What can you do personally to maintain a boiler?
A poorly operating central heating boiler is no good for your wallet, or the environment, as it’s efficiency can be reduced by 30%.
Boilers with Lowest CO2 Emissions
An energy efficient boiler has less Co2 emissions than an old, or inefficient boiler (in the region of 30% less). And as boilers can account for as much, if not more than 60% of Co2 home emissions
Energy Efficiency Rating, what is it?
Boilers, like most home appliances, now have energy efficiency ratings and they are arranged under the Seasonal Efficiency of Domestic Boilers scheme, or SEDBUK for short.
New Boiler Efficiency Legislation
Choosing and buying a new boiler is not such a simple matter these days. A central heating boiler is now seen as a key part in the Government’s strategy to make more U.K. homes
How and why you should lag your hot water cylinder
If you want to save both money and the environment, then how and why you should lag your hot water cylinder (tank) is quite an important question.
How Do Boilers Work?
Sat in the corner of the kitchen, or the utility room, the boiler is often overlooked, but it is one of the key components of the modern day house.
New Boiler Grants
But there is quite a lot of help available when it comes to installing a new boiler, such as a boiler grant, or an energy efficiency grant. These are provided by the government, or by the energy suppliers
How to get the Best out of your Condensing Boiler
Firstly, which boiler do you have? There are a number of boilers that currently operate in U.K homes: conventional, combi, condensing and back boiler
How to get the Best out of your Boiler
Firstly, which boiler do you have? There are a number of boilers that currently operate in U.K homes: conventional, combi, condensing and back boiler
How to get the Best out of your Combi Boiler
Firstly, which boiler do you have? There are a number of boilers that currently operate in U.K homes: conventional, combi, condensing and back boiler
Battling Fuel Bills – What Help Is There?
With ever increasing fuel bills, it’s good to know that there are a number of ways by which you can get some help.
What is a Social Tariff?
A social tariff is there for those that need help to pay their fuel bills...
What is British Gas HomeCare?
British Gas HomeCare is one of the most comprehensive maintenance and repair programmes available today, but just how useful is it for the average householder?...
Pros and Cons of a Back Boiler
Lets get one thing straight right away – back boilers are slightly frowned upon these days by the people who draw up the Building Regulations...
Boiler Installation Process
When it comes to the boiler installation process there is one key piece of advice: be aware of cowboys bearing cheap quotes...
Who is Nwy Prydain?
British Gas Wales trades under the name of Nwy Prydain...
Which Boiler to Choose
Which boiler to choose for your home can be a little daunting as there is quite a choice, each with a number of pros and cons...
Pros and Cons of Condensing Boilers
A condensing boiler has one great upside: it’s the most energy efficient boiler around...
Pros and Cons of Combination Boilers
Over half of the new boiler sales in the U.K are currently of the combination type...
Dangers of Old Boilers
If there is one simple message about sudden boiler breakdown, it is that you should take it very seriously indeed. Old boilers can kill...
What Should You Do If Your Boiler Breaks Down?
Boiler breakdown is unfortunately one of the more worrisome facts of life that a homeowner has to face...
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